Our team

Making life-saving surgical care available to all

Secretariat

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Mrs. Nefti
Bempong-Ahun

Project Manager

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Dr. Mélanie Samson

Senior Technical Officer, Women’s Health

Ms. Marta Erroz

Operations Manager

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Dr. John E. Varallo

Team Lead, Women’s Health

Ms. Francesca Vitucci

Project Manager, SURGhub

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Mr. Sebastian Hofbauer

Programme Manager

Dr. Geoff Ibbotson

Executive Director

Mr. Jan Plavcan

Senior Advisor, Strategy, Communications and Partnerships

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Ms. Yuval Cohen

Project Associate,
Women’s Health

Governing Bodies

Foundation Board

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Prof. Rifat Atun

Board Chair

Dr. Phumzile
Mlambo-Ngcuka

Board Member

Mr. John Cross

Board Member

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High-Level Council

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Dr. Lubna Samad

Co-Chair

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Dr. Ifereimi Waquainabete

Western Pacific

Dr. Reem Al Bunyan

Middle East & North Africa

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Dr. Adrian Gelb

Americas

Mr. Roland Göhde

Private Sector

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Ms. Stella Itungu

Professional Societies

Dr. Noor Hisham

South & South-East Asia

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Mr. Pradeep Kakkattil

NGOs

Mr. Ricardo Leite

Europe & Central Asia

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Dr. Salome Maswime

Academia

Dr. Liz McLeod

Western Pacific

Dr. John Meara

Academia

Mr. Justin Narducci

NGOs

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Dr. Aly Shalaby

Middle East & North Africa

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Mr. Rali Mampeule

Philanthropic Donors

Dr. Emmanuel Makasa

Sub-Saharan Africa

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Ms. Lauren Marks

Private Sector

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Ms. Susie Schaefer

Organisational Founders

Technical Advisory Council

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Dr. Abebe Bekele

Professional Societies

Dr. Daniela Filipescu

Europe & Central Asia

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Dr. Kee Park

Americas

Dr. Matchecane Cossa

Sub-Saharan Africa

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Dr. Walt Johnson

NGOs

Dr. Ronke Desalu

Professional Societies

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Dr. Bhagawan Koirala

South & South-East Asia

Dr. Nesrine Elrefai

Middle-East & North Africa

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Dr. Chris Lundgren

Academia

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Advisors

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Dr. Anam Noor Ehsan

Dr. Benjamin Gold

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Mr. Julio Andrade

Dr. Mark Shrime

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Dr. Ché L. Reddy

Dr. Tom Randall

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Dr. Dominique Vervoort

Dr. Kusum Thapa

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Dr. Matthias Rüger

Dr. Scott Corlew

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Dr. Alfredo Borrero Vega Special Envoy

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Dr. Kavitha Ranganathan

Prof. Hadiza Galadanci

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Dr. Nobhojit Roy

Dr. Rahel Nardos

Academic Fellows

Meet previous academic fellows here.

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Dr. Anmol Patted

Based at Thomas Jefferson University, USA

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Ms. Noor Alesawy

Based at John Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA

Dr. AN Na

Based at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

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Ms. Allison Lu

Based at Creighton University of Medicine, USA

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